This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Competition has been a common thread in Bill Gates´ life since he was born. Both of his parents had competitive careers and expected no less from him.Whether playing sports or excelling in the classroom, he was pressured to excel and rewarded for success While you may not have been born into this extreme environment of competition, this book will teach you all about the lessons of competition from the perspectiv...

A GIRL WHO NEVER GAVE UP - Dusty Martin hadn’t had an easy time of it. After her mama’s death she’d cut her hair and strapped on a revolver to join her father riding shotgun atop his stagecoach. Even when Charley Martin was killed by outlaws, and she was taken prisoner, Dusty kept hope alive. Until her prayers were answered by the hottest, hardest Texas Ranger ever to carry a badge or bring in a bandit. A MAN WHO NEVER BACKED DOWN - Grant Spencer always got his man, but the wild woman he r...

Founded in 1935, the New Farmers of America (NFA) was the first national organization for Black farm boys studying vocational agriculture at segregated public high schools across the South—and as far north as New Jersey. Sociologist and award-winning author Bobby J. Smith II charts new terrain in Black history by uncovering the hidden story of the organization, which grew to an annual membership of more than 55,000 members and empowered Black boys to challenge racial exclusion in agricultu...

Modern Democrats from FDR in 1933 to Donald S. Trump in the present includes summaries of the seven democratic presidents since 1933: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Jimmy Carter, William J. Clinton, and Barack Obama.Are you aware that just 100 years ago, women in the United States were not even allowed to vote? 150 years ago, many African Americans in the United States were slaves and were traded like property and treated like sub-human.

In the Senate Select Committee report on the Benghazi attack, Democratic Senator and Chairman Dianne Feinstein concluded: "The committee worked, on a bipartisan basis, to investigate the various allegations that have come out since the terrorist attacks in Benghazi in September 2012 and to get to the truth about what happened leading up to, during and after the attacks. I hope this report will put to rest many of the conspiracy theories and political accusations about what happened in Beng...

This book unearths a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and oral histories, Bobby J. Smith II re-examines the Mississippi civil rights movement as a period when activists expanded the meaning of civil rights to address food as integral to sociopolitical and economic conditions. For decades, white economic and political actors used food as a weapon against Black sharecropping communities in the Yazoo-Mississippi...

After years of darkness, Eric Livna, newly appointed lord of Tsaftown, returns from the battlefield ready to properly assume his title and become a true husband and father to his family. His marriage to Lady Viola, though arranged and built on mutual duty, has lacked the warmth of true affection, but Eric is hoping to bridge the emotional distance between them.For too long Lady Viola Livna has silently endured the injustices woven into Tsaftown’s laws—laws she believes will threate...

These diaries and family letters reveals the experiences of Senator Benjamin Tillman's brother as a Confederate captain during and after the Civil War.Though the Tillman family of Edgefield, South Carolina, is important to Palmetto State history, James Adams Tillman never became a politician like his famous brothers Ben and George. Instead, at the age of twenty-four, James died from injuries sustained during the Civil War. Now, in this collection of diary entries a...

How do theatre and development partnerships operate? What issues impede collaborations between various institutions and individuals? Why do relations between global North and South partners often fail to reflect important values such as equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit?This is the first book to examine theatre and global development partnerships. It focusses on the UK and East African countries of Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda, presenting the author’s own experiences, case study...

Modern Republicans from Eisenhower in 1953 to Donald S. Trump in the present includes summaries of the seven Republican presidents since 1953: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump.Eisenhower managed the initiation of the Interstate Highway Systems and ordered the U.S. Army to enforce the integration of the Little Rock Arkansas High School, the first public school integration in the United States.T...

Last summer I celebrated my 80th birthday. That puts me about half way through my retirement years. It costs a lot to make it through retirement with dignity. I am estimating $1.75 million for 27 years from the time you are 65 till 92. The odds are good that you will need supplementary income above and beyond what you have saved. I am suggesting you start an online business which you run from your home to provide that extra income.This book describes step by step how to set up an at-home o...

ISIS (or ISIL) conducts successful military attacks in Syria, Iraq and Libya. They conduct and inspire terror attacks in Paris, Brussels, and San Bernardino. Beheading, slaughter, and other unimaginable atrocities are carried out frequently by ISIS.This is unacceptable. President Obama has promised that defeating ISIS is his top priority but he wants to defeat them without additional "boots on the ground". He claims he will bring the perpetrators to justice. That's not enough. We n...